Fresh Sound, or Fresh Sound New Talent, is a Spanish

Spain

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 jazz label based in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, specializing in American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 music.

Fresh Sound was founded in 1983 as a reissue label for 1950s jazz. They expanded into issuing releases by newer musicians in the 1990s.

The label was founded and is currently run by Jordi Pujol, who oversees several labels distributed by Bluemoon.

Artists who have released material on Fresh Sound

• Pablo Ablanedo
• Reid Anderson
  Reid Anderson
  Reid Anderson is a bassist and composer originally from Minnesota. Anderson is best known for his work in The Bad Plus with pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King...
  
  
• Bruce Arkin
• Omer Avital
• The Bad Plus
  The Bad Plus
  The Bad Plus are a jazz trio from the United States, consisting of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King, originating from Minneapolis, MN.-History:...
  
  
• Gorka Benitez
• Max Bennett
  Max Bennett (musician)
  Max Bennett is an American jazz bassist and session musician.Bennett grew up in Kansas City and Oskaloosa, Iowa, and went to college in Iowa. His first professional gig was with Herbie Fields in 1949, and following this he played with Georgie Auld, Terry Gibbs, and Charlie Ventura...
  
  
• Seamus Blake
  Seamus Blake
  -Life and career:Born in London, England, Blake was brought up in Vancouver, Canada. His mother introduced him to jazz when he was a child and he later attended Berklee School of Music in Boston. Upon graduation moved to New York. In February 2002 he won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone...
  
  
• Albert Bover
• Marlon Browden
• Carme Canela
• Chris Cheek
  Chris Cheek
  Chris Cheek is an American jazz saxophonist. He has worked as a sideman on more than sixty albums in his career, and has been bandleader of four critically acclaimed solo albums.-Biography:Cheek was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri...
  
  
• Avishai Cohen
  Avishai Cohen (trumpeter)
  Avishai Cohen Is a New York City based Jazz musician originally from Tel Aviv, Israel.Cohen is an internationally recognized influential jazz trumpet player, composer, and bandleader. His playing style reflects a heavy influence from the Bebop and Post-bop traditions. However elements of...
  
  
• George Colligan
  George Colligan
  George Colligan is a New York-based jazz pianist, organist, drummer, trumpet player, educator, composer and bandleader. He was born in New Jersey, and raised in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. He attended the Peabody Institute, majoring in classical trumpet and music education...
  
  
• Alexis Cuadrado
• Ronnie Cuber
  Ronnie Cuber
  Ronnie Cuber is a jazz saxophonist. He has also played in Latin, pop, rock and blues sessions. In addition to his primary instrument, baritone sax, he has also played tenor sax, soprano sax and flute, the latter on an album by Eddie Palmieri. As a leader, Cuber is known for hard bop and Latin jazz...
  
  
• Eli Degibri
  Eli Degibri
  Eli Degibri is an Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.-Early life:Degibri first began playing the mandolin at age 7 in an after school music program at the Jaffa Conservatory of Music...
  
  
• Daniel Freedman
• Johnny Glasel
  Johnny Glasel
  Johnny Glasel , is an American jazz trumpeter.Glasel attended the Yale School of Music early in the 1950s and then played in the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and chamber music ensembles alongside gigs with jazz musicians...
  
  
• Phil Grenadier
• Amos Hoffman
• Ethan Iverson
  Ethan Iverson
  Ethan Iverson is a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work in the postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus, with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King....
  
  
• Michael Kanan
• Agnar Magnusson
• Rebecca Martin
  Rebecca Martin
  ((Rebecca Martin (born April 24, 1969, Portland, Maine) is an American singer and songwriter from Rumford, Maine. She and Jesse Harris formed Once Blue in the early 1990s and released a self-titled debut. In 1998, she released the solo album Thoroughfare....
  
  
• Bill McHenry
• Ryan Meagher
• Brad Mehldau
  Brad Mehldau
  Brad Mehldau is an American jazz pianist. Besides leading his own group, the Brad Mehldau Trio, he has performed with many renowned artists, including Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, Larry Grenadier, Peter Bernstein, Jeff Ballard, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Kurt...
  
  
• Stephane Mercier
• Paul Moer
  Paul Moer
  Paul Moerschbacher, better known as Paul Moer , was an American jazz pianist.Moer attended the University of Miami, graduating in 1951, and following this played frequently on the West Coast jazz scene with Benny Carter, Vido Musso, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, Bill Holman, and Shorty Rogers...
  
  
• Lanny Morgan
  Lanny Morgan
  Lanny Morgan is an American jazz alto saxophonist chiefly active on the West Coast jazz scene.Morgan was raised in Los Angeles. In the 1950s he played with Charlie Barnet, Si Zentner, Terry Gibbs, and Bob Florence, then did a stint in the U.S. military, for which reason he had to turn down an...
  
  
• Jack Nimitz
  Jack Nimitz
  Jack Nimitz was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.He played in a variety of genres including jazz and rock...
  
  
• Hod O'Brien
• Vardan Ovsepian
• Roberta Piket
• Andrew Rathbun
• Pete Robbins
  Pete Robbins
  Pete Robbins is a professional American jazz saxophonist and composer living in Brooklyn. He records for the Barcelona-based label Fresh Sound New Talent....
  
  
• Kurt Rosenwinkel
  Kurt Rosenwinkel
  Kurt Rosenwinkel is an American jazz guitarist and keyboardist who came to prominence in the 1990s.-Biography:He attended the Berklee School of Music for two and a half years before leaving in his junior year to tour with Gary Burton, the dean of the school at the time...
  
  
• Jorge Rossy
  Jorge Rossy
  Jorge Rossy is a jazz drummer. He started playing drums at age 11.Between 1980 and 1989, he toured and recorded extensively with several musicians in the Spanish jazz scene, as well as with internationally acclaimed artists such as Woody Shaw, Kenny Wheeler, Jack Walrath, Dave Schinitter, Sal...
  
  
• Walter Smith III
  Walter Smith III
  Walter Smith III is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Walter Smith III has garnered notoriety by playing with some of the biggest names in Jazz, such as trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Mulgrew Miller, and Joe Lovano. Also, he has toured with R&B artists such as...
  
  
• Frank Strazzeri
  Frank Strazzeri
  Frank Strazzeri is an American jazz pianist.Strazzeri began on tenor saxophone and clarinet at age 12, then switched to piano soon after. He attended the Eastman School of Music, then took a job as a house pianist in a nightclub in Rochester in 1952. While there he accompanied visiting musicians...
  
  
• Marcus Strickland
  Marcus Strickland
  Marcus Strickland is a jazz soprano, alto and tenor saxophonist who grew up in Miami, Florida who currently lives in New York...
  
  
• Nat Su
• Ben Waltzer
• David Weiss
  David Weiss
  David Weiss may refer to:* David Weiss , Swiss multi-media artist* David Weiss , author of Naked Came I* David C. Weiss, acting US Attorney for Delaware, succeeded Colm Connolly...
  
  
• Sebastian Weiss
• Claude Williamson
  Claude Williamson
  Claude Berkeley Williamson is a jazz pianist.Williamson studied at the New England Conservatory of Music before moving to jazz, influenced mainly by Teddy Wilson, then by Al Haig and Bud Powell...
  
  
• David Xirgu
• Miguel Zenon
  Miguel Zenon
  Miguel Zenón is an alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader.-Biography:Miguel Zenón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While studying at the Escuela Libre de Musica in San Juan, he won a scholarship to the “Berklee in Puerto Rico” program of the Berklee College of Music and a scholarship to...